Staying Attractive

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30953, 8 January 1966, Page 2

Staying Attractive

Four precepts for middle-aged women who want to stay attractive to their husbands have been announced by the French ballerina, Ludmilla Tcherina. They are: Don’t drink, don’t smoke; keep the figure supple with exercises; preserve marital harmony; keep make-up to a minimum and scrap it altogether on holiday. Tcherina, who is heading

for her forty-first birthday, has the figure of a girl of 20, says a London correspondent. The dancer will appear in a new opera-ballet in a Parisian theatre later this year. It will be called “The Hasbeen” and is about a star on the decline. “Hasbeen” is something Ludmilla guards against with care. She has what she calls a “take in in turns” diet. She exists on evening meals only. And then she has only one kind of food. Today it will be meat, to-

morrow cheese, the next day vegetables. This rule, though, is flexible. “Sometimes I eat just what I like —I don’t have to be completely strict about it.”

An article in an Italian • magazine recently suggested that Tcherina wears a turban s 4 often to cover the scars of face-lifting operations. “I’m ready to go to court and show my head to witnesses to prove this is a lie,” she said in Paris recently. J (All Rights Reserved).